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- Title
Parallels between hearing and seeing support Physicalism.
- Authors
Handel, Stephen; Erickson, Molly L.
- Abstract
There are 2,000 hair cells in the cochlea, but only three cones in the retina. This disparity can be understood in terms of the differences between the physical characteristics of the auditory signal (discrete excitations and resonances requiring many narrowly tuned receptors) and those of the visual signal (smooth daylight excitations and reflectances requiring only a few broadly tuned receptors). We argue that this match supports the physicalism of color and timbre.
- Subjects
COLOR; LOGICAL positivism; COMPARISON (Philosophy); HAIR cells; COCHLEA; RETINA
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2003, Vol 26, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X03320011